{"id":88041,"date":"2017-05-18T17:40:16","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T22:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=88041"},"modified":"2017-05-18T17:40:16","modified_gmt":"2017-05-18T22:40:16","slug":"thomas-j-werling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2017\/05\/18\/thomas-j-werling\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas J. Werling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas J. \u201cNoodles\u201d Werling, 56, of Defiance, passed away Wednesday, May 17, 2017, at his residence.<\/p>\n<p>He was born September 10, 1960, in Van Wert, the son of Melvin \u201cPeck\u201d Werling and Bonnie (Bebout) Hoffman, who both preceded him in death.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8711\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/American-Flag-for-obituaries-6-2011.jpg\" alt=\"American Flag for obituaries 6-2011\" width=\"125\" height=\"66\" \/>Survivors include a son, Clint Werling of Columbus; and two sisters, Beckie (Paul) Allison of Fremont, Indiana, and Diane (Ron) Walters of Kissimmee, Florida.<\/p>\n<p>A brother, Daniel \u201cBeef\u201d Werling, also preceded him in death.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday, May 20, at Convoy United Methodist Church, with Pastor Melissa Steinecker officiating. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Visitation is an hour prior to services Saturday at the church.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Preferred memorials: Defiance Fellowship Club or Amvets.<\/p>\n<p>Alspach-Gearhart Funeral Home &amp; Crematory made the arrangements.<\/p>\n<p>Condolences may be expressed at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alspachgearhart.com\">www.alspachgearhart.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas J. \u201cNoodles\u201d Werling, 56, of Defiance, passed away Wednesday, May 17, 2017, at his residence. He was born September 10, 1960, in Van Wert, the son of Melvin \u201cPeck\u201d Werling and Bonnie (Bebout) Hoffman, who both preceded him in death. Survivors include a son, Clint Werling of Columbus; and two sisters, Beckie (Paul) Allison [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 09:46:37","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}